Elon Musk: "Dear Prime Minister Ambani, Please accept my humble apologies for not realizing that…"
“Dear Prime Minister Ambani, Please accept my humble apologies for not realizing that you are the real boss of India. Naturally, you would prefer to maintain your monopolistic exploitation of the great people of India, but would you nonetheless consider allowing Starlink to compete?”
Reported October 25, 2026 by epw.in. Checked word for word against that report.
Elon Musk, identified in the source as the richest person in the world, posted a message that treated Ambani as India’s prime minister and raised the question of whether Starlink would be permitted to operate in the country. According to the article, Musk’s post echoed concerns many Indians have expressed that the government favors a small group of business figures over the public, and the article says his method further lowered Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s standing. The post came amid public anger over election administration: an Oct. 10 New Delhi protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and the alleged loss of voting rights for millions drew unprecedented security, large-scale arrests, suspended trains and shuttered metro stations. The Left, Aam Aadmi Party and Trinamool Congress joined; Congress did not.
- epw.in ↗︎25 OCT 2026